re: The view from my "office"
This post might be more aptly named ‘My day at the ‘office’ ’ but I won’t confuse things by starting another similar thread.
Woke early today and thought a spin in the country would be nice after the recent wet weather that cleared overnight. Hit the road at 7 am, 800 km later hit home at 7 pm. Nice day out and got to blow a few cobwebs out of the turbo in the process.
Here’s the route: N along the coast (Indian Ocean Drive – recommended), through quite a few National Parks and reserves in the famed WA flora-rich heathlands, before swinging inland through the W of the wheatbelt and home. A month or two early for the peak of the wildflowers, but there was still plenty of early stuff on offer.
Unusual lighthouse of rather nice brickwork at Guilderton (named after some Dutch guilders discovered from a famous Dutch shipwreck, the ‘Gilt Dragon’), mouth of the Moore River at Guilderton, panorama over the coastal heath, a bit of the Indian Ocean Drive.
Coastal heath, (moving) sand dunes, a legacy ‘shack’ settlement called Grey on what until a few years ago was a very isolated section of the coast (the Indian Ocean Drive is fairly recent). These settlements are controversial and have been grandfathered for existing squatters.
The Pinnacles, which is a well-visited attraction in the region.
Some wildflowers. Banksia, scarlet feather flower (
Verticordia grandis) is just stunning, smokebush, egg and bacon plant (
Eutaxia sp.), native woody pear.
Coast and road, pointing S on the start of the run home. Had to get some agriculture in! Early-sown ‘Roundup-Ready’ (aka ‘genetically modified’) canola crop looking very good, flowering canola adds real colour to the landscape, nice sunset about 1.5 h out from home.
I hope everyone else also had a lovely day in their office!
. This Burmese is definitely in our top 5 of our "cats from hell" (domestic cats that is, we have to deal with ferals on a fortnightly basis).
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